Findlay: 100 books
Imposing Decency
The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
Feminists, socialists, Afro-Puerto Rican activists, and elite politicians join laundresses, prostitutes, and dissatisfied wives in populating the pages of Imposing Decency. Through her analyses of Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, attempts at reforming marriage, and working-class ideas about...
Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s Playing with Purpose
A Quilt Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Take a deep look inside the evolution of one of today’s most important modern quilt artists. Always fascinated by color, pattern, and design, Victoria Findlay Wolfe found her life’s true joy in quiltmaking. Her diverse and exciting body of work stirs quilters worldwide to dig deeper, take risks,...
Ascent to the Absolute
Metaphysical Papers and Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Originally published in 1970. This book is a collection of lectures and papers given by Professor Findlay in the 1960s. The theme is an argument for a metaphysical Absolute, in the sense of post-Hegelian Idealism. Findlay’s word for the Absolute process is ‘Enterprise’, which must be necessary...
Aesthetic Breast Surgery
Concepts & Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Filled with take-away messages and valuable insights, Aesthetic Breast Surgery by Elizabeth Hall-Findlay, MD, is a masterful text that you will refer to time and again. It presents a personal and time-proven approach to all forms of aesthetic breast surgery.
This book is a distillation of the...
Power and Plenty
Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account...
Acid Attack
A Journalist's War With Organised Crime
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Two days before Christmas 2015, veteran crime journalist Russell Findlay was the target of a vicious attack on his own doorstep. An unknown assailant, disguised as a postman, hurled sulphuric acid in his face before attempting to stab him with a steak knife. Despite suffering horrific burns, Findlay...
by Michael Findlay
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and instead trusting our own instincts, opinions, and...
Chasing Lost Time
The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, penned by his great-great-niece
"And suddenly the memory returns. The taste was that of the little crumb of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before church-time),...
by Joy Findlay
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Publishing a book in any genre is an exciting but daunting undertaking for first-time authors. Self-publishing even more so. With over 60 ebooks published online, the husband and wife team of Findlay Books have put together this book to help new authors navigate their way through self-publishing. Although...
The Buses of Northern Scottish
From Alexanders (Northern) to Stagecoach
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
How many of us grew up saying they wanted to be a bus driver? How many of us actually did it? Peter Findlay can answer yes to both questions. This book reflects the author's interest in Northern Scottish and its predecessor, from childhood through to actually working with the company from their Buckie...
Property, Labour and Legal Regulation
Dignity or Dependence?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In this revealing comparative study, Mark Findlay examines the problematic nexus between undervalued labour and vulnerable migration status in dis-embedded markets. It highlights the frustrations raised by timeless regulatory failure and the chronic complicity of private property arrangements in delivering...
by Allan M. Findlay, Anne Findlay
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Allan and Anne Findlay argue that a nation's human population is a vital resource in the development process. Changes in its composition - increased life expectancy combined with a falling birth rate, for example - can have profound effects upon a society. Warfare and mass migration of male workers...
We Are Left without a Father Here
Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government, migrated to...
Mollycoddling the Feckless
A Social Work Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Alistair Findlay has written the first ever memoir of a career in Scottish social work. He reflects on the changing landscape of the profession since he entered it in 1970 in a memoir that is thoughtful, progressive, humane – and funny. He conveys how he and his fellow workers shared friendship and banter in work that can be hard and thankless but also hugely rewarding and worthwhile.